God and Nature: Four Problems of Cosmology, Part 1 (The Reasons to Believe #93)

Our Reasons to Believe passage from the Word of God today is Isaiah 50:4. It reads, "The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned." 

Our Reasons to Believe quote for today is from Dan Story. He said, "Today, people continue to rebel against God. We curse Him, ignore Him, and flaunt our disobedience. Motivated by pride, greed, and selfishness, people destroy one another and willfully abuse and pollute God's earth...it's amazing God has not lost His patience and destroyed all of us. Rather than condemning God for allowing evil, we should be thankful that He withholds the punishment we deserve."

Our Reason to Believe powerpoint today is titled "God and Nature - Four Problems of Cosmology" part 1 from "The Handbook of Christian Apologetics" by Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli:

All four of the problems of cosmology --- creation and evolution, providence and freedom, miracles and angels --- concern God's relationship with the cosmos or nature or the universe. All of them can be addressed either at great length or in brief. We choose the latter way because we feel that all four issues have been made unnecessarily complex. On the other hand, the problem of evil, is the perennial Problem Number One facing the theist, and merits its own entire, rather long and complex, discussion. (But since it concerns what seems to be the badness of creation and the goodness of the Creator, we realize that the problem of evil is also a problem of cosmology: a problem about the relation between God and nature.)

Creation and Evolution

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